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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Suspected murder suicide in Pietermaritzburg

Police suspect a murder-suicide in yesterday’s death of a student and critical burn wounds sustained by her boyfriend in a blaze in a room in Pietermaritzburg residence of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Police are withholding the identities of the 23-year-old woman and 27-year-old man. The man is reportedly in a critical condition in hospital. The Mercury reports that the university's security staff gained entry to the burning flat after responding to a call and managed to put out the flames that engulfed the man, who was lying on the floor. The woman, whose body was allegedly on a bed, was already dead.